ies of the Game-breed, in
Tegetmeier's 'Poultry Book,' 1866, p. 131. For Cuckoo Dorkings, p. 97.

[406] Mr. Hewitt in Tegetmeier's 'Poultry Book,' 1866, pp. 246 and 156. For
hen-tailed game-cocks, _see_ p. 131.

[407] 'The Field,' April 20th, 1861. The writer says he has seen
half-a-dozen cocks thus sacrificed.

[408] 'Proceedings of Zoolog. Soc.' March, 1861, p. 102. The engraving of
the hen-tailed cock just alluded to was exhibited at the Society.

[409] 'The Field,' April 20th, 1861.

[410] I am much indebted to Mr. Brent for an account, with sketches, of all
the variations of the comb known to him, and likewise with respect to the
tail, as presently to be given.

[411] The 'Poultry Book,' by Tegetmeier, 1866, p. 234.

[412] 'Die Huehner und Pfauenzucht,' 1827, s. 11.

[413] 'Poultry Chronicle,' vol. i. p. 595. Mr. Brent has informed me of the
same fact. With respect to the position of the spurs in Dorkings, _see_
'Cottage Gardener,' Sept. 18th, 1860, p. 380.

[414] Dixon, 'Ornamental and Domestic Poultry,' p. 320.

[415] Mr. Tegetmeier informs me that Game hens have been found so
combative, that it is now generally the practice to exhibit each hen in a
separate pen.

[416] 'Naturgeschichte Deutschlands,' Band iii. (1793), s. 339, 407.

[417] On the Ornithology of Ceylon in 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. History,'
2nd series, vol. xiv. (1854), p. 63.

[418] I quote Blumenbach on the authority of Mr. Tegetmeier, who gives in
'Proc. Zoolog. Soc.,' Nov. 25th, 1856, a very interesting account of the
skulls of Polish fowls. Mr. Tegetmeier, not knowing of Bechstein's account,
disputed the accuracy of Blumenbach's statement. For Bechstein, _see_
'Naturgeschichte Deutschlands,' Band iii. (1793), s. 399, note. I may add
that at the first exhibition of poultry at the Zoological Gardens, in May,
1845, I saw some fowls, called Friezland fowls, of which the hens were
crested, and the cocks were furnished with a comb.

[419] 'Cottage Gardener,' Jan. 3rd, 1860, p. 218.

[420] Mr. Williams, in a paper read before the Dublin Nat. Hist. Soc.,
quoted in 'Cottage Gardener,' 1856, p. 161.

[421] 'De l'Espece,' 1859, p. 442. For the occurrence of black-boned fowls
in South America, _see_ Roulin, in 'Mem. de l'Acad. des Sciences,' tom. vi.
p. 351; and Azara, 'Quadrupedes du Paraguay,' tom. ii. p. 324. A frizzled
fowl sent to me from Madras had black bones.

[422] Mr. Hewitt, in Tegetmeier's 'Poultry Book,' 1866, p. 231.

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